1 00:00:06,693 --> 00:00:10,053 Speaker 1: You're listening to the Simon Barnett and James Daniels Afternoons 2 00:00:10,093 --> 00:00:12,013 Speaker 1: podcast from News Talk ZB. 3 00:00:12,813 --> 00:00:15,053 Speaker 2: Christine, Hi, Hi. 4 00:00:15,053 --> 00:00:18,213 Speaker 3: Good afternoon. Hey, I've got a real doozy for you. Yes, 5 00:00:19,253 --> 00:00:23,173 Speaker 3: our local supermarket was doing a big win all these 6 00:00:23,213 --> 00:00:27,173 Speaker 3: competitions and enter the drawer and put your supermarket voucher in. 7 00:00:27,613 --> 00:00:30,133 Speaker 3: This is twenty two years ago, so it was the 8 00:00:30,173 --> 00:00:33,813 Speaker 3: local Peck and Save, and they had all these fantastic 9 00:00:33,893 --> 00:00:38,893 Speaker 3: trips that you could win, and a couch and all 10 00:00:38,933 --> 00:00:42,493 Speaker 3: sorts of sporting things and anyhow, it was turning out 11 00:00:42,493 --> 00:00:45,293 Speaker 3: to be my fortieth birthday and I got this weird 12 00:00:45,493 --> 00:00:49,293 Speaker 3: phone call that said I've won a prize and could 13 00:00:49,293 --> 00:00:52,613 Speaker 3: I ring this number back? And I thought, ah, somebody's 14 00:00:52,653 --> 00:00:56,173 Speaker 3: pulling my tit here. I haven't won anything, so I 15 00:00:56,173 --> 00:00:59,333 Speaker 3: ignored it. I ignored that call, and they kept leaving 16 00:00:59,413 --> 00:01:03,693 Speaker 3: these messages same person. So I thought, oh, I'll go 17 00:01:03,773 --> 00:01:06,853 Speaker 3: to supermarket the following week, and I thought, oh, I 18 00:01:06,933 --> 00:01:10,093 Speaker 3: wonder if it's true I never won anything. So I 19 00:01:10,213 --> 00:01:13,573 Speaker 3: marched up to the customer services desk. I said, oh, look, 20 00:01:13,653 --> 00:01:17,933 Speaker 3: my name's you know, Christine, and there's a silly message 21 00:01:17,973 --> 00:01:20,613 Speaker 3: on my phone. And I think somebody's playing a joke 22 00:01:20,693 --> 00:01:25,213 Speaker 3: on me. They said, oh, and I said, They said, 23 00:01:25,413 --> 00:01:28,613 Speaker 3: I won a major prize, and I'm thinking, oh, I've 24 00:01:28,653 --> 00:01:31,573 Speaker 3: won a year's supply of toilet paper or something. 25 00:01:32,853 --> 00:01:34,293 Speaker 2: It was good during COVID. 26 00:01:35,573 --> 00:01:38,533 Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, no, but we're talking twenty two years ago. 27 00:01:39,053 --> 00:01:42,053 Speaker 3: So how it transpires, and I've won this mystery week 28 00:01:42,093 --> 00:01:45,893 Speaker 3: because there was trips to Disneyland into the Gold Coast, 29 00:01:46,373 --> 00:01:50,413 Speaker 3: but I won a mystery weekend trip, so I felt fantastic. 30 00:01:50,533 --> 00:01:52,533 Speaker 3: So I pick up my prize and I get this 31 00:01:52,653 --> 00:01:56,653 Speaker 3: voucher thing and I'm heading home and tell my husband 32 00:01:56,653 --> 00:01:59,413 Speaker 3: and my son and my daughter. At the time, they're 33 00:01:59,413 --> 00:02:01,173 Speaker 3: all saying, can we go? Can we go? And I 34 00:02:01,213 --> 00:02:05,093 Speaker 3: said no. I said, I've already decided who's going. I'm 35 00:02:05,133 --> 00:02:06,653 Speaker 3: going to be forty. 36 00:02:06,813 --> 00:02:07,813 Speaker 2: You took your husband. 37 00:02:08,573 --> 00:02:11,733 Speaker 3: No, I did not take him at all, No way, 38 00:02:11,973 --> 00:02:15,933 Speaker 3: bloody Now, I was not taking him. 39 00:02:16,253 --> 00:02:17,333 Speaker 2: Is he still your husband? 40 00:02:18,613 --> 00:02:21,253 Speaker 3: I ditched him, and my son wanted to go, my 41 00:02:21,453 --> 00:02:25,213 Speaker 3: daughter and I said, no, I'm going to. Well, as 42 00:02:25,253 --> 00:02:28,173 Speaker 3: it turns out, I took a very dear friend to me. 43 00:02:28,453 --> 00:02:31,493 Speaker 3: She was turning sixty, and I thought, well, these are 44 00:02:31,533 --> 00:02:34,333 Speaker 3: one hundred good reasons why we could have a girl's weekend. 45 00:02:34,573 --> 00:02:37,293 Speaker 3: Very good, And why didn't. 46 00:02:37,093 --> 00:02:39,413 Speaker 2: You take your husband though it's a romantic mystery girl, 47 00:02:39,653 --> 00:02:40,493 Speaker 2: simon let it go. 48 00:02:40,853 --> 00:02:44,013 Speaker 3: No, no, I didn't want to have a romantic weekend 49 00:02:44,053 --> 00:02:46,013 Speaker 3: with him. He had no more romance in them than 50 00:02:46,093 --> 00:02:51,573 Speaker 3: fly to the Moon. So anyhow I ended up taking 51 00:02:51,813 --> 00:02:55,893 Speaker 3: what to everybody else would have thought, no way, would 52 00:02:55,933 --> 00:03:00,413 Speaker 3: you take your father's girlfriend. My dad was married, but 53 00:03:00,493 --> 00:03:02,933 Speaker 3: he had this lovely lady that had been in his 54 00:03:03,013 --> 00:03:07,213 Speaker 3: life and she was turning sixty, so I thought, I'll 55 00:03:07,293 --> 00:03:07,813 Speaker 3: take her. 56 00:03:08,413 --> 00:03:13,093 Speaker 2: So who is she is? She is sher father's father's girlfriend. 57 00:03:12,773 --> 00:03:16,453 Speaker 3: She'd been I hadn't. Dad had introduced me to her 58 00:03:16,493 --> 00:03:19,293 Speaker 3: when I was only twenty one years of age, and 59 00:03:19,373 --> 00:03:25,133 Speaker 3: ere I was, you know, turning forty. For nineteen years. 60 00:03:25,133 --> 00:03:27,973 Speaker 3: I've known her and she was a lovely lady. So 61 00:03:28,053 --> 00:03:30,653 Speaker 3: I ended up taking her. We get to the airport, 62 00:03:31,253 --> 00:03:33,373 Speaker 3: and back in those days, you walked up to the 63 00:03:33,453 --> 00:03:36,693 Speaker 3: counter and you could say on the thing where you 64 00:03:36,813 --> 00:03:38,693 Speaker 3: didn't want to go. And I didn't want to go 65 00:03:38,773 --> 00:03:41,933 Speaker 3: to the North Island because we're in the North Island, right, 66 00:03:42,253 --> 00:03:46,053 Speaker 3: So we got sent to Nelson. So we bought this 67 00:03:46,173 --> 00:03:49,573 Speaker 3: little beata plane, you know, turbo prop, and off we 68 00:03:49,733 --> 00:03:54,173 Speaker 3: go to Nelson and we at the wine tours because 69 00:03:54,213 --> 00:03:58,933 Speaker 3: she drank and I didn't, So I drove and she drank, 70 00:03:59,133 --> 00:04:03,293 Speaker 3: and we went the Vinyan doors, We went to the markets, 71 00:04:03,453 --> 00:04:07,373 Speaker 3: we went and hit the shops, we went to the restaurants, 72 00:04:07,933 --> 00:04:10,813 Speaker 3: and we extended it for a couple of extra days. 73 00:04:10,853 --> 00:04:11,853 Speaker 3: You could extend it. 74 00:04:12,013 --> 00:04:13,733 Speaker 2: So what a great trip. 75 00:04:16,413 --> 00:04:18,573 Speaker 3: And we went to Terry Terry. 76 00:04:18,493 --> 00:04:21,493 Speaker 2: Or beautiful spot. Yeah, camp there for years, beautiful. Did 77 00:04:21,533 --> 00:04:23,773 Speaker 2: you did your husband resent you for not taking him? 78 00:04:25,333 --> 00:04:28,653 Speaker 3: No, not at all. He had no more interest in 79 00:04:28,733 --> 00:04:30,813 Speaker 3: going than fly to the moon. He thought it was 80 00:04:31,293 --> 00:04:34,253 Speaker 3: a great opportunity to do boys stuff without me. 81 00:04:34,813 --> 00:04:39,853 Speaker 2: Christine, what about your father's girlfriend. Was your father estranged 82 00:04:39,893 --> 00:04:42,213 Speaker 2: from your mother at the time? Is that what happened? 83 00:04:42,733 --> 00:04:44,573 Speaker 3: No, they were still very much married. 84 00:04:45,533 --> 00:04:48,213 Speaker 2: When you say girlfriend, you mean just like literally having 85 00:04:48,973 --> 00:04:50,053 Speaker 2: no no girlfriend. 86 00:04:51,293 --> 00:04:53,733 Speaker 3: No, but he's the claner, you know. 87 00:04:53,933 --> 00:04:59,773 Speaker 2: So I'm on this weekend with you, so I have 88 00:04:59,813 --> 00:05:02,133 Speaker 2: to know. Was it was it your dad's Was it 89 00:05:02,173 --> 00:05:03,813 Speaker 2: a like as mistress or something? 90 00:05:04,853 --> 00:05:05,813 Speaker 3: Yes? Yes? 91 00:05:06,693 --> 00:05:09,733 Speaker 2: And or didn't you feel horrible for your mother? 92 00:05:11,053 --> 00:05:15,053 Speaker 3: No? No, no, no, no, no love lost there? 93 00:05:16,133 --> 00:05:18,773 Speaker 2: But so your dad is bonking this woman and you've 94 00:05:18,773 --> 00:05:22,693 Speaker 2: gone away with her, and your poor mums stuck. What 95 00:05:22,853 --> 00:05:23,973 Speaker 2: you can't say? Bonking? 96 00:05:26,533 --> 00:05:30,373 Speaker 3: No? It turned out my long story, and I won't 97 00:05:30,413 --> 00:05:37,253 Speaker 3: get into it. But she had been a great She 98 00:05:37,413 --> 00:05:39,293 Speaker 3: was more my mother than my own mother. 99 00:05:39,293 --> 00:05:40,573 Speaker 2: Was, right, Okay? 100 00:05:41,333 --> 00:05:45,653 Speaker 3: Yes, and Michael kids called her grandma. 101 00:05:46,733 --> 00:05:50,693 Speaker 2: Well, what that's that is a will wind weekend geon. 102 00:05:50,693 --> 00:05:52,733 Speaker 2: I'm exhausted after that story, Christine. 103 00:05:54,973 --> 00:05:57,653 Speaker 3: But I'll tell you what the clinger is here is. 104 00:05:58,373 --> 00:06:04,133 Speaker 3: So I divorced my husband about three years after. 105 00:06:03,853 --> 00:06:06,133 Speaker 2: That, And don't tell me he ended up with the mistress. 106 00:06:07,213 --> 00:06:11,333 Speaker 3: No, no, no, it gets better better. So I was 107 00:06:11,333 --> 00:06:16,533 Speaker 3: on my own for about ten years, and I found 108 00:06:16,533 --> 00:06:20,493 Speaker 3: out that my husband had been cheating and had other 109 00:06:20,573 --> 00:06:21,893 Speaker 3: children I didn't know about. 110 00:06:23,373 --> 00:06:27,813 Speaker 2: It seems to go around in your family, Christine, keep going, Yes. 111 00:06:27,693 --> 00:06:30,213 Speaker 3: So the marriage went west and I was on my 112 00:06:30,293 --> 00:06:34,253 Speaker 3: own for about ten years, and I met a lovely 113 00:06:34,373 --> 00:06:38,773 Speaker 3: man who turned out to be a pilot. 114 00:06:40,093 --> 00:06:43,053 Speaker 2: Right and what you went to one a mystery weekend 115 00:06:43,053 --> 00:06:44,173 Speaker 2: with him and he flew the plane. 116 00:06:45,853 --> 00:06:51,253 Speaker 3: No, he worked for in New Zealand. And we have 117 00:06:51,413 --> 00:06:55,493 Speaker 3: been together for nearly twelve years and married for six 118 00:06:56,253 --> 00:06:57,533 Speaker 3: that is terrific. 119 00:06:58,093 --> 00:07:00,373 Speaker 2: That's a great that's a great end to that story. 120 00:07:00,413 --> 00:07:02,453 Speaker 2: You deserve that after your husband cheated on you. 121 00:07:04,253 --> 00:07:08,933 Speaker 3: So there's a silver lining in every out. And my 122 00:07:09,093 --> 00:07:12,173 Speaker 3: parents both past now and so he said's mistress, So 123 00:07:12,573 --> 00:07:12,813 Speaker 3: you know. 124 00:07:15,693 --> 00:07:19,133 Speaker 2: Yeah, wow, Well we're all sort of we need all 125 00:07:19,133 --> 00:07:21,613 Speaker 2: of riding. A cup of tin and a lie down 126 00:07:21,653 --> 00:07:22,653 Speaker 2: and a cigarette. 127 00:07:23,733 --> 00:07:25,333 Speaker 3: I'm going home for an internette. 128 00:07:25,533 --> 00:07:28,693 Speaker 2: Good Christine, Thank you for livening up our day. 129 00:07:29,933 --> 00:07:32,813 Speaker 3: Oh no, you guys make me laugh every afternoon when 130 00:07:32,853 --> 00:07:35,293 Speaker 3: I leave school, I switch on and listen to you. 131 00:07:35,373 --> 00:07:38,413 Speaker 2: Oh well you've made us laugh. Christine, thank you very much. 132 00:07:38,933 --> 00:07:41,013 Speaker 2: Southern text me coming in here too. Oh my gosh, 133 00:07:41,013 --> 00:07:43,053 Speaker 2: listening to this is hilarious. What a story. Keep this 134 00:07:43,133 --> 00:07:45,413 Speaker 2: lady on. This woman needs her own slot every week. 135 00:07:45,933 --> 00:07:48,133 Speaker 2: Another textas saying, I think all the listeners are on 136 00:07:48,133 --> 00:07:51,773 Speaker 2: the edge of their seats. Tell me about it. How 137 00:07:51,853 --> 00:07:53,853 Speaker 2: is a mystery weekend? All Right? News Talks EDB 138 00:07:55,373 --> 00:07:58,933 Speaker 1: For more from Simon Barnett and James Daniels afternoons, listen 139 00:07:59,053 --> 00:08:03,013 Speaker 1: live to News Talks EDB, or follow the podcast on iHeartRadio.